To Become - A Beginner's Story

What is it that's stopping you from just beginning?

Is it fear? Is it not feeling ready? Lack of resources? Waiting for "the perfect timing"?

Everyone, when starting something, is a beginner.

A beginner is just someone who has just started learning a skill or a new activity. If it be a hobby, a sport, or a business, for it to become something great, you first have to begin.

Just like any expert, pro-athlete, best-selling author, or award-winning artist, they all had to start somewhere. They all had to pick up the ball, the paintbrush, take out the loan, and act on an idea, without any prior experience. You don't just become something great without learning the curve it takes to get there in the first place, but the only way to learn it is by doing it.

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"The only way out is through," mentality.

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Something I am learning and recognizing is that if God gave you the vision and the burden, then will He not also provide you the answer, even if other questions arise?

This reminds me of when God called the Israelites out of Egypt, into the Promised Land. It took them 40 years in the wilderness to make it there, and although it took them years to get there, God delivered on the promise like He always does. While in the wilderness, they faced many more thoughts, trials, and self-imposed questions of fear and doubt. To the extent that God even became angry with them, because if He said he was going to do it, then He would. He is a faithful God, after all.

When David was anointed and received the prophecy that he would be king, he did not have an ounce of understanding of how or what to do to get there. When he said yes to playing the harp to soothe the (current) king, I don't believe he had any malicious thoughts or plans to work or slither his way to the top. He just kept giving God his "yes", and one "yes" after another, led him to become the thing God called him to be.

So many times, I have to ask myself when was the last time I truly trusted God? When was the last time I gave him my "yes"?

To be frank, there have been many things I've held back on out of fear, noncompliance, selfishness, laziness, or not feeling "ready". More times than I can count on my fingers. Things I've held on with regret about, because I didn't act sooner, and that is just not the kind of life I want to live anymore. Now, if that sounds like you, it shouldn't be the life you live either.

You do not have to have all the answers. You're never going to be 100% ready. There will never be a truly perfect time to start, so why not start today?